Image ManipulationPaint.NET - An open source, raster graphics editing program for Windows, developed on the .NET Framework. Paint.NET has evolved from a simple replacement for the Microsoft Paint program, which is included with Windows, into a powerful editor with support for layers, blending, transparency, and plugins. It is often used as a free alternative to Adobe Photoshop.

Disk ManagementTreeSizePretty cool tool that lets you find what folders are eating up all your space.

Productivity (i guess?)LaunchyKind of like QuickSilver for the Mac. It allows you to launch apps and open files from a bar that launches on a customizable key combination. It's got a lot of plugins that do various things.

"The danger lies not in the machine itself but in the user's failure to envision the full consequences of the instructions he gives to it." --Neil Stephenson

Burning ProgramsBurrrn - Only for audio burning, but it is good at doing it.

imgburn - Burning anything else. Technically this can burn audio CDs as well, just have to create a cue sheet to do that, which imgburn can do. It is an extra step I don't want to make when I can do it a few clicks in burrrn. It can burn data discs, create an image from disc or folder (not an emulation program). Both are low profile. I prefer having 2 good burning programs than one bloated one. This also has good support, for questions or problems on their forums. Does update sometimes.

I am full time PC technician, here's some of the things I use all the time on customer's computers:

Securityantivirus - avira is the best (free) but avast is the coolest. i still haven't (and won't) reverted from "Talk Like a Pirate Day". i used AVG for many years, but (sorry to say) it's crap anymore. although the AVG2011 "social networking" feature looks nice, I've just seen too much malware/virus' slip past AVG in the past 6 months to try it again.

surprised as heck i haven't seen malwarebytes antimalware mentioned.i understand the free version doesn't have a resident shield, but it's still the best at detection and removal (albeit after the fact)http://download.cnet.com/Malwarebytes-A ... contentAuxi clean dozens of malware infections a month, and i've had mbam catch stuff that every other program has missed.also, mbam has a tool (fileassasin) that will remove locked files)

System UtilitiesCcleaner and Advanced system care have already been mentioned, as has sysinternal suite.another good one is toolbox.http://www.iobit.com/toolbox.html

Has anyone notice Firefox becoming a bit bloated in the past few update releases? (I have)I found a FF based browser called PaleMoon. I've been using Pale Moon for a few weeks now and it seems to be quite a bit faster than regular FF but with all the main features. (imported my FF profile without any problems, including extensions, addons, saved form data, etc)http://www.palemoon.org/

Here's something I've been searching for for a while now:a free exchange client. (not pop3, imap, etc but EXCHANGE)anyone have any thoughts on that?

Hi everyone. My question is which ones will run on a Windows 64 bit system and are free, too? I'm upgrading to 64 and any advice would be welcomed.I've listed the software running on my windows 32 bit system:Malwarebytes, Avast, ZoneAlarm, ThreatFire and Advance SystemCare.

Audacity is a good audio editor, but it's main purpose is a multitrack recording studio.Foobar2000, the best audio player in the history of the world.MusePack is the proven best audio encoder, as long as you don't need portability.MP3Gain: equalize the volume of your mp3s. No more fiddling with volume dials. It is lossless.guliverkli, misc stuff from the guy who writes Media player classic.Matroska should replace avi everywhere. AVI is Evil.Rarewares has binaries of Lame, Ogg, AAC, MPC, etc. Also Debian APT packages of same.